Sampung utos sa Iglesia Ni Cristo (Ten commandments to Church Of Christ)

I hope you don't mind me copying it, thank you =)

I’m an Iglesia Ni Cristo and I’ve copy and paste these commandments for myself to see what our minister told us during our worship day. We did have the copy on our own but I didn’t able to read it but now I did. The minister told us that we should check if we were following all the commandments we had received. These commandments will help us to know what the things we failed to do and that is for the sake of serving our father, GOD and for our faith to grow even stronger. I agree to what he told us during our worship day. And I realized something.

Some says that it’s hard being Iglesia ni Cristo. I asked them why they think so? They told me because there were many rules to follow. And they were afraid of not fulfilling all of the rules inside the church. They were afraid to take a responsibility that they couldn’t handle. They can’t leave their old ways of living and they can’t offer their time to know what the church will going to tell them. It’s like they close their eyes and ears for them not to see and hear what the church can teach them. I can’t force them though; I don’t have the right to do that because I honestly say that some of the brethren were like them too. I, too, can sometimes be like that. But to think that the problem is not the rules or the commandments but “MYSELF”. It hurts me more when I think about what I’m still missing. Sometimes I wish that I'm perfect so that it's not hard for me to follow and my conscience is all clear. But he made us not perfect... why? because we should understand that we're not living in the fantasy but in reality, in this world.

Yes, it’s true. We, Iglesia ni Cristo were all afraid too, of not fulfilling all of the rules that had given to us. We sometimes find time in our busy day fulfilling our duty and make a hard time to be what we’re expecting us to be. Because we’re also people like you, we can be exhausted, we can feel hunger, we sometimes got sick and sometimes face difficulties that it’s hard for us to handle… but what we have is what you don’t have and that is “Our FAITH!”.  Not simple faith that can be vanishing in thin air but a deeper faith that whatever you do it’s still there inside your heart and mind... and you couldn't erase it. But GOD is great because although he kept it  deep inside his brethren's heart and mind, if this will be covered with fears, doubts, envy, and all the thoughts about the material world it will not disappear but it will just stuck inside there and you’ll never find it unless you’ll remove all the things that covers it.

So we are not fulfilling our duty because we’re told to do so, or our minister told us to do so… but it’s what our heart and mind told us to do. We were using it to make us tougher, to make us braver and specially to show our love to the “Church”, to our “Savior Jesus Christ”, and esp. “to our “Father GOD in heaven”.  Don’t think of false accusations… (I’m talking to not brethren)…

So what I’ve realized is that not counting the things you have done of following that list but being aware of who you are as a brethren. It might be hard but no matter how hard it is we should face it with great courage for us to win our battles. As a brethren, I will never forget that what I had can't be bought with anything and it was given to me not with just somebody… so we should be tougher as always, smarter than before and always hoping that our sacrifices will never ever be forgotten. We should remember that the reason of these commandments should not just to be read or posted but to be done. And that is what “INC true calling”.  (Now, I’m talking to brethren)…